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Some thoughts on using the Exchange Integration Pack for Orchestrator…
Recently a customer decided to start using System Center Orchestrator to automate some of the recurring tasks with regards to the management and support of their Exchange organization. More specifically, they wanted to create a custom interface to which the support...
Spooky! The curious case of the ‘ghost’ File Share Witness…
Recently, I was doing some research for a book that I’m working on together with Exchange MVP’s Paul Cunningham and Steve Goodman. It involved recovering a “failed” server using the /m:recoverserver switch. The process itself is straightforward, but depending on what...
The road ahead… New challenges!
Over the past twelve years I’ve gone through a series of jobs, from being a support agent at a helpdesk to being an Exchange consultant at Xylos today. All of the opportunities I have had and the customers I’ve worked with allowed me to grow as a consultant and as a...
Hybrid Configration Wizard fails with error ‘Mail Flow Default Receive Connector cannot be found on server…’
Recently, I got asked to assist with a Hybrid Configuration Wizard which was failing with the following error message: Updating hybrid configuration failed with error 'Subtask NeedsConfiguration execution failed: Configure Mail Flow Default Receive Connector cannot...
New Hybrid Configuration Wizard features in Exchange 2013 CU5
As posted here, Microsoft today released Cumulative Update 5 for Exchange 2013. At first sight, this update doesn't appear to make lots of changes – at least not visibly. However, it does contain a lot of fixes and, as you will find out, there have been some changes...
Microsoft releases Exchange 2013 Cumulative Update 5 and Exchange 2010 Update Rollup 6
Today, Microsoft released Cumulative Update 5 for Exchange 2013 and Update Rollup 6 for Exchange 2010. Exchange 2013 Cumulative Update 5 Next to a ton of bug fixes, Microsoft made changes to a few components including: Offline Address Book generation Hybrid...
Help! Where do I put my Hybrid server?
As part of a hybrid Exchange server deployment, you also deploy the so-called Hybrid Server(s). The name itself might be a little misleading though. After all it's not some sort of new Exchange server role, nor is it an Exchange server that you deploy specifically to...
Upcoming speaking engagements
2014 promises to be a busy year, just like 2013. So far, I've had the opportunity to speak at the Microsoft Exchange Conference in Austin and soon I'll be speaking at TechEd in Houston as well. Below are my recent and upcoming speaking engagements. If you're attending...
The UC Architects episode 37 now available!
Even though it's only been a couple of days that we released episode 36 - "Live @ MEC", we proudly announce the release of our latest episode: "episode 37 - don't MEC my Heartbleed". In this latest installment, Steve, John, Michel, Stale and myself talk about a myriad...